Genus

Valid Extinct

Demandasaurus

Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. 2011

Demandasaurus is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur from early Cretaceous deposits of Spain. Demandasaurus is known from an incomplete but associated skeleton that includes cranial and postcranial remains. It was collected from the Castrillo de la Reina Formation in Burgos Province. It was first named by Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor, José Ignacio Canudo, Pedro Huerta, Diego Montero, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, and Leonardo Salgado in 2011, and the type species is Demandasaurus darwini.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial

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A hypothetical life restoration of Ampelosaurus atacis • Ampelosaurus is known from hundreds of fossil specimens which show most of the dinosaur's osteological details, however, there are few articulated remains or reconstructions of the material so its overall proportions and life appearance are uncertain. • Ampelosaurus is known to have supported osteoderms, only four are currently known. The number of these osteoderms that an individual Ampelosaurus would have supported in life and their and position on the body is not currently known. It's thought that due to the rarity of titanosaur osteoderms that they would be quite sparse on the body. The position and layout of the osteoderms has been loosely based on this interpretation, which is based on the work of Vidal et al 2015. [1] © ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia · Public domain · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Saurischia Unranked clade

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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade

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Massopoda Unranked clade

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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade

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Sauropoda Unranked clade

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Gravisauria Unranked clade

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Eusauropoda Unranked clade

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Neosauropoda Unranked clade

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Diplodocoidea Unranked clade

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Diplodocimorpha Unranked clade

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Rebbachisauridae Unranked clade

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Khebbashia Unranked clade

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Rebbachisaurinae Unranked clade

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Demandasaurus Genus

Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇪🇸 Spain

Geological formations

Castrillo de la Reina

Temporal distribution

Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)

Species (1)

Demandasaurus darwini 126 Ma

Images 1

Bibliography

Original description

F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor, J. I. Canudo, and P. Huerta, D. Montero, X. Pereda Suberbiola, L. Salgado. 2011. Demandasaurus darwini, a new rebbachisaurid sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(3):535-552

Bibliography (2)

F. T. Fernández-Baldor, J. I. Canudo, and P. Huerta, D. Montero, X. P. Suberbiola, L. Salgado. 2011. Demandasaurus darwini, a New Rebbachisaurid Sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(6):535-552 DOI ↗

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